I have just read a letter from your Mama, so I thought I would answer your letter, & write to your Mama at the same time. This cool pleasant eve finds us well. We took a little trip to Westmd on Saturday. Went to Brinkers & on Sunday morning we took the horse & buggy & went out to see Grandma. Took Clarence with us. We took dinner with her & drove home in the evening. She lives about four miles from from Brinkers. We started home on Monday morning. Stopped at Irwin. Pierce came home on the noon train train to go to work. I & Clarence stayed until Tuesday eve. brought little Bell home with us. She is such a delicate timid little thing I thought it would do her good to have a change. She seems to be well contented. Says she is going to stay two weeks. We left Nevin at his Aunt Mollies. He will stay their a week & they will take him out to his Grandmas and Uncle Wills & Aunt Kate. They all live close together so he will have a good time. Eunie & family are well. David is harvesting several miles from home. Comes home every Sat. Grandma Gill is with them she is failing very fast. She had a slight stroke last winter. Since then she has not felt so well is very short of breath. On hot days she says she can hardly get her breath at all. She thinks that lump or, gortar, it is called, is partly the cause of it. She still tryes to help Eunie sew & manage the children clothes. She almost keeps the children dressed. I tell you she is a model old lady. I don't think Eunie thanks her as she should, but never mind. She will miss her when she is no more.
Well Nina I was very much pleased to have a letter from you, & I hope it will not be the last. It had only one fault. Was too short. I like a big long letter, but I find the less writing one does the less we want to do, & I have got rather slow & have gotten behind with my letters. I wrote one to Nevin last night. Pierce & Clarence had to add some, before I closed. I expect one from him soon. We had a pleasant trip to Rock Point, on the 11th inst. The Presbyterian sunday School held ther Picnic their, any one could go. Fare was 50 cts round trip. 39 [89?] miles from Pitts, about 8 miles north of Beaver falls we all went. Took our dinner & supper, had our coffee pot & coffee. They have two kitchens, and stoves to cook on, & to say we had a good time is a very faint way of expressing it. I never was in such a picturesque place. The rocks trees & ferns look like these pictures you put in a Stereoscope & look at, so natural. Rocks as large as a small house, with trees growing right on top you would wonder how & where they get their nourishment. They have all kinds of amusements their for children. There are many things I could tell you about if I could talk to you face to face. We left home at half past eight, got home in the evening about same time. There were in all 749 passengers on the train 14 coaches & one bagage. Think our Sunday School and congregation will go to Idle wild on the 15th of Aug. We go south east about 50 miles suppose we will all go. The round trip is only 50 cts to cheap to miss it. I want to have Nevin home by that time, he likes such trips. I hope you like to go to school. I think it will be rather hard work this hot weather. I think the scrap of your dresses very pretty. The are somewhat different from the patterns used here. Gingham is all the rage here. I did not get any as I had one which was pretty good. I got a brown henrietta in the spring. Had a satteen last summer which is good & Pierce brought me a chintz. I will send you a scrap of each if I dont forget. Now Nina I would like to tell you all about the Flood at Johnstown, if I had time & space. All I can say, is, it was the most terrible disaster on history. There were nearly 4,000 persons drowned. Pierce was down about one week after. He said words cannot express the horror & distress. Now I must close. Please write again. Our love to all. Your loving Aunt
Mollie Cline